Past Events

The 2020 Von Hügel Lecture delivered by Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald:

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In recent decades the Catholic Church, alongside other institutions, has been rocked by revelations about widespread physical and sexual abuse of minors by its clergy. This lecture will take global stock of that crisis after six years of Pope Francis’ pontificate and ask where the Church has got to in remedying this situation.

The VHI is currently exploring different visions of one of its key markers, ‘catholicity’, and contemporary constrictions in its embodiment of that capacious characteristic.

At the end of a long life, I wish to record both the debts that I owe to the Catholic Church and the reasons why I am glad that I am no longer a member of it. While attending junior and senior seminary I received an excellent classical education and made many good friends.

Jacques Maritain was the most important Catholic intellectual of the mid-twentieth century. His most important project was convincing Catholics around the world that their faith entailed support of political democracy.

An Academic Symposium jointly organised by the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund's College, and Megalim: The City of David Institute. 

An Academic Symposium jointly organised by the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund's College, and Megalim: The City of David Institute. 

Catholicity, the key marker of the Roman Catholic Church, has been understood in many different ways over the last two millennia. As worldviews change in complex ways human communities, whether religious or not, imagine their place in the cosmos variously.